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...others: American Chicle Co., American Snuff Co., Beech-Nut Packing Co., Bon Ami Co. "A", Central Aguirre Associates, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co., First National Stores, Inc., W. T. Grant Co., George W. Helme Co., Homestake Mining Co., International Business Machines Corp., Kroger Grocery and Baking Co., Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., McKeesport Tinplate Corp., Monsanto Chemical Co., Sun Oil Co., and United States Tobacco...
Instantly killed were 34, including Lieutenant Abadia. Many of the 150 injured were taken to hospitals where eight later died. There were no serious injuries among diplomats or dignitaries, although a few had to snuff out drops of burning gasoline. A broken part which came hurtling off the plane bruised the wife of the Japanese Charge d'Affaires...
Last week, the Government thought they had found the right man to bring Imperial Airways up to snuff. That man was starchy, six-foot-six Sir John Charles Walsham Reith, a dour, egg-headed, ascetic Aberdonian who since 1922 has had his puritanical thumb on the destinies of the British Broadcasting Corp. Son of a preacher, trained as a Clydeside engineer, he got his job with B.B.C. by the improbable method of answering a want ad for a general manager...
...about $1,000 more than an ordinary chamber, but it is worth it. With its hydrocyanic gas, it can kill two humans at a time, quickly, efficiently, without any mess. Says Earl Liston, with a craftsman's pride: "Our calculations show that this new chamber should snuff out the life in about 15 seconds...
...score had actually never been lost at all. The romantic, mentally ailing composer had left the concerto to Violinist Joseph Joachim, whose will consigned it to remain unheard until the 100th anniversary of Schumann's death (TIME, Aug. 23). (Joachim considered the concerto not up to snuff.) Since 1907 the concerto had rested securely in the archives of Berlin's Prussian State Library, where its existence had been well known to scholars and had been noted in dozens of bibliographies and musical dictionaries. Last April, German Music Publisher Wilhelm Strecker sent photostats of the original manuscript to Menuhin...